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Joseph Wesley Young Jr. (1882–1934) was a founder and developer of Hollywood, Florida. He is listed as a Great Floridian. The house is described as looking like a "Moorish castle with two-dozen rooms" and it may have a resident ghost. One of the "most venerable and storied mansions in Broward County", it was for sale in 2008.
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During the 1920s Florida land boom, 1055 Hollywood Boulevard was built as the residence of Joseph W. Young, founder of Hollywood, a planned community. Young oversaw every detail in the development of Hollywood. An urban developer, Young sought to protect environmental quality, prevent misuse of land and enhance property values by guiding ...
But Hollywood actually began to exist in 1920, when Young sent the first men to clear the initial site and lay in Hollywood Boulevard. Here are some vignettes about the city’s beginnings, to suggest its astonishing rise from empty land in 1920 to a “Planned Paradise” or Garden City in less than five years.
Joe Young’s original home, a Rubush & Hunter design built in 1924 at 1055 Hollywood Blvd., is a perfect example of this style. Luckily, it is in near-original condition, with all the exterior ornamentation still intact, including the Mission bell on the east side of the house.
In 2002 Investment Banker and Broward Trust for Historic Preservation board member Richard Vest purchased and fully restored the mansion which had been abandoned, vandalized and gutted for 5 years. The story of Hollywood Florida's Joseph Wesley Young.
The Story of Founder's Day. "HOLLYWOOD by the Sea" was envisioned and begun in 1920 by one man, Joseph W. Young, Jr. He drew up the city plan with its broad Boulevard intersected by three circles.
